Ben Jonson

Jonson Ben, (gerçek ismi Benjamin Jonson) (11 Haziran 1572 - 6 Ağustos 1637), 17. yüzyıl İngiliz oyun yazarı, şair, oyuncu ve eleştirmen.

İngiltere'nin ikinci büyük tiyatro adamı (Shakespeare'dan sonra) olarak kabul edilir. Yaşamının İngiltere'de oyuncu ve yazar olarak adını duyurana kadarki bölümü hakkında pek fazla bir şey bilinmemektedir. 1598 yılında Every man in his humour adlı komedisi William Shakespeare'in kurduğu tiyatro topluluğu tarafından oynanmıştır. Shakespeare ile Jonson özel yaşamlarında da birbirlerinin yakın arkadaşlarındandır. 1604 yılında I. James tarafından saraya çağrılmış bu işte 20 yılını harcamıştır, artık sarayda gözden düşünce yeni komediler yazmaya karar vermişse de eski gücünü yitirdiğini fark etmiştir. Hayatının bir kısmına 2011 yapımı Anonymous filminde değinilmiştir.

Oyunlar
A Tale of a Tub, komedi 1640)
The Case is Altered komedi 1597-8
Every Man in His Humour komedi
Every Man out of His Humour komedi
Cynthia's Revels
The Poetaster,
Sejanus: His Fall, trajedi
Eastward Ho, komedi
Volpone, comedy
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, komedi
The Alchemist, komedi
, trajedi
Bartholomew Fair, komedi
The Devil is an Ass, komedi
The Staple of News, komedi
The New Inn, or The Light Heart, komedi
The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled, komedi
The Sad Shepherd, pastoral (tamamlanmamış)
Mortimer his Fall, tarih

Maskeli piyesler
The Coronation Triumph, or The King's Entertainment (performed March 15, 1604; printed 1604); with Thomas Dekker
A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day (The Penates) (May 1, 1604; printed 1616)
The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp (The Satyr) (June 25, 1603; printed 1604)
The Masque of Blackness (Jan. 6, 1605; printed ca. 1608)
Hymenaei (Jan. 5, 1606; printed 1606)
The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Hours) (July 24, 1606; printed 1616)
The Masque of Beauty (Jan. 10, 1608; printed ca. 1608)
The Masque of Queens (Feb. 2, 1609; printed 1609)
Hue and Cry after Cupid, or The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage (Feb. 9, 1608; printed ca. 1608)
The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, or The Lady of the Lake (Jan. 6, 1610; printed 1616)
Oberon, the Faery Prince (Jan. 1, 1611; printed 1616)
Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly (Feb. 3, 1611; printed 1616)
Love Restored (Jan. 6, 1612; printed 1616)
A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage (Dec. 27, 1613/Jan. 1, 1614; Printed 1616)
The Irish Masque at Court (Dec. 29, 1613; printed 1616)
Christmas, his Masque (Christmas 1616; printed 1641)
The Vision of Delight (Jan. 6, 1617; printed 1641)
Lovers Made Men, or The Masque of Lethe, or The Masque at Lord Hay's (Feb. 22, 1617; printed 1617)
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (Jan. 6, 1618; printed 1641) The masque was a failure; Jonson revised it by placing the anti-masque first, turning it into:
For the Honor of Wales (Feb. 17, 1618; printed 1641)
News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (Jan. 7, 1620: printed 1641)
The Entertainment at Blackfriars, or The Newcastle Entertainment (May 1620?; MS)
Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherds' Holy-Day (June 19, 1620?; printed 1641)
The Gypsies Metamorphosed (Aug 3 and 5, 1621; printed 1640)
The Masque of Augurs (Jan. 6, 1622; printed 1622)
Time Vindicated to Himself, and to his Honors (Jan. 19, 1623; printed 1623)
Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion (Jan. 26, 1624; printed 1624)
The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth (Aug. 19, 1624; printed 1641)
The Fortunate Isles and their Union (Jan. 9, 1625; printed 1625)
Love's Triumph Through Callipolis (Jan. 9, 1631; printed 1631)
Chloridia: Rites to Chloris and Her Nymphs (Feb. 22, 1631; printed 1631)
The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottinghamshire (May 21, 1633; printed 1641)
Love's Welcome at Balsover (July 30, 1634; printed 1641)

Diğer
Epigrams (1612)
The Forest (1616)
A Discourse of Love (1618)
Barclay's Argenis, (1623)
The Execration against Vulcan with Epigrams (1640)
Horace's Art of Poetry(1640)
Underwoods (1640)
Timber or Discoveries

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